According to official website of Northeast Forestry University, Northeast Forestry University is a key construction university of "2 1 1 Project" directly under the Ministry of Education, an innovation platform for dominant disciplines of "985 Project" and a national "world-class discipline" construction university. Approved by the Ministry of Education, the State Forestry Administration and the People's Government of Heilongjiang Province, it has the right to award bachelor's, master's and doctoral degrees, and has a postdoctoral research mobile station.

Northeast Forestry University is a multi-disciplinary coordinated development institution with forestry as its advantage and forestry engineering as its feature.